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You proudly served your country, but what’s next? Now it’s time to put the GI Bill to use and get the education you’ve earned. The Department of Veterans Affairs has several programs that can cover the cost of education and training – for both active military and veterans – take care of housing fees and, in some cases, allow you to transfer education benefits to your family.
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The GI Bill is a sore subject with me. Nam Era vets had 10 years to use ours or we’d lose it. As with maybe other women vets, by the time all of my children were in school and I could go back to college, I had only one year left. I was told that I could ask for an extension, but that was denied. So I lost 9/10 of my GI Bill.
I earned this by serving my country. Yet nearly all of it was taken from me because I was a diligent mother who took total responsibility for raising her children. I think we are owed what we earned.
Vets and military personnel are so lucky today.
I earned this by serving my country. Yet nearly all of it was taken from me because I was a diligent mother who took total responsibility for raising her children. I think we are owed what we earned.
Vets and military personnel are so lucky today.
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Sgt Tom Verify
Just last week I tried to convert my Vietnam Era GI bill to the Montgomery Bill, which is available for the Forever GI Bill benefits of having no time restrictions, but it was denied. I want to study for an MA in my career field, a $30K tuition program. Probably won't be attending. Xin Loi (Vietnamese for "sorry 'bout dat")
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SFC Steven Wheeler
I am also a VEAP era service member in the Army from 1982 thru 1089 and then was in the Florida Army National Guard's AGR program for the next 14 years, retiring in 2004. I had put in for the Post 9/11 GI, but was denied because I was Title 32 active duty and not Title 10 AGR (I am guessing that is at the NGB level). At the time I was AGR, we were told the we did not have state level benefits as we were in the AGR program, so we used Tuition Assistance through Ft Stewart. But after retiring I found that we really did have anything.
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PO3 Kelly Delgado
I never got to use ANY if my GI bill. Its bullshit. I paid for it I should get to use it when my life allowed me to be able to go to school and pursue a career.
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Myself and about 40k other veterans were unfortunate to fall under VEAP. This was a filler between Vietnam era GI Bill and the Montgomery GI Bill. The catch 22 was if you don’t convert during your first year to
Montgomery, even though this was announced after the period had lapsed, you lost everything. They changed the rules and we were left out. 20 active duty years including combat time and zero educational benefits to show for it. No concern in congress to take care of us veterans like their is for todays veterans. The benefits today are life changing for not just the vet but the family as well. This would have been huge for myself and family. Texas tried to pick up the slack for us VEAP vets but offered tuition for the vet only, no other stipends and no family.
Montgomery, even though this was announced after the period had lapsed, you lost everything. They changed the rules and we were left out. 20 active duty years including combat time and zero educational benefits to show for it. No concern in congress to take care of us veterans like their is for todays veterans. The benefits today are life changing for not just the vet but the family as well. This would have been huge for myself and family. Texas tried to pick up the slack for us VEAP vets but offered tuition for the vet only, no other stipends and no family.
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Just finished my Master’s Degree last month, thanks to the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Forever grateful. Thank you!!
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